Trying to do a drive-through of maritime Maine in a few days is as futile as trying to tease town genealogy from its graffiti, but I’m a fool and I rush in.

It was 20-something years ago that I last saw this exhibit of generations of lobstering boats at Maine Maritime Museum.

Since then, MMM has installed this most effective display of a vessel built on the grounds, schooner Wyoming, the largest ever wooden ship, the last of 10 six-masters. For scale, note the workmen and the black pickup truck and yellow lift at the bow.

And from this site, if I rotate a quarter turn to the right, it’s BIW and the emerging DDG-1000 Zumwalt. Its namesake is this remarkable man.

Here’s the vessel and a fleet of Winslow tugs as seen from the Route 1 Bridge.